Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:02:18 +0200
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Over-embargoing
If you ask me some large commercial distros suck much.
They pissed me off on several occasions,
broke the social contract and possibly
alienated other people.
FYI yesterday you lost a CMS bug because
of the lousy CVEs. I was playing with
CMS and noticed an ``anomaly'' which
I don't feel disclosing unless I am
sure it won't get _any_ CVE.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:49:03AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> At the Debian Security Team meeting <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/03/msg00004.html>,
> the topic over-embargoing at Red Hat was touched briefly.
>
> During the past year or two, we initiated quite a few embargoes for
> mostly uninteresting bugs (denial of service, huge inputs required,
> obscure software or configuration). We did this mainly out of
> courtesy for others, but we recognize the overhead an embargo
> causes. In retrospect, I'm not sure if we always made the right
> choice. What do you think?
>
> --
> Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team